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Manchester/MMU American History Reading Group!

khurlock — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:47:08 +0000

Meeting to take place: Samuel Alexander Building, room N.1.12, University of Manchester

On: Thursday 25^th April at 4pm

We will be discussing: Sidney Mintz’s Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations (Harvard UP, 2012)

Available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Ancient-Colonies-W-E-B-Lectures/dp/0674050126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365002926&sr=8-1

Scanned PDF of chapter 3 on Haiti available from Catherine Armstrong. Please email C.M.Armstrong@mmu.ac.uk

All staff and postgrads welcome: tea/coffee and nibbles provided.

Day Long Workshop for Postgraduates

khurlock — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:05:58 +0000

Calling all History, Politics and Philosophy MA , MPhil and PhD students!

We’d like to offer you an informal opportunity to discuss your research with other students and members of staff in your department.

A day-long workshop will take place on July 3rd and we’d like you to present your MA or PhD research.
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You can choose to present in either of two formats:
1. Formal academic papers of 20 minutes (suitable for PhDs in the later stages of their careers)
2. Informal reports about your research of 10 minutes (more suitable for MA and PhD student in their early stages)

We would like to develop a real sense of postgraduate community, allowing like-minded individuals to come together to discuss their work. Please do get involved and it will be a friendly and sociable event!

In order to put your name down please email Catherine Armstrong (Senior Lecturer in American History) C.M....@mmu.ac.uk with your name, topic (one sentence will do) and whether you’d like to speak for 10 or 20 minutes. The deadline for this is 30 April.

NB this event is not to be confused with the IHSSR (faculty) postgraduate conference in May that is for research students only. Our event welcomes all postgraduates from the History, Politics and Philosophy department, whether at MA or PhD level.

Dr Catherine Armstrong to give talk at the American Museum in Bath

khurlock — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:46:31 +0000

On March 15th, Dr Catherine Armstrong will give a talk to the staff at the American Museum in Bath, giving them the historical background and informtion on debates over the places and people that they discuss with visitors. Dr Armstrong’s talk will prepare them for a new season at the museum, which reopens to visitors on March 23rd.

For more information on the American Museum in Bath, see their website http://www.americanmuseum.org/

Call for Papers: Thomas Paine Conference

khurlock — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:02:36 +0000

Citizen of the World: The Use and Abuse of Thomas Paine c.1809-2009

The bicentennial of the death of Thomas Paine in 2009 saw new attention directed towards Paine’s life and times, but his legacy has still not received the attention it deserves. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a ‘filthy little atheist’, yet adopted by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America ‘great again’, Paine’s life and legacy have been both celebrated and dismissed by generations of politicians and presidents. An Englishman by birth, a Frenchman by decree and a citizen of the world, Paine has also been invoked, discussed and appropriated by many others, in many walks of life, across the world. This conference seeks to examine the afterlife of Paine and the ways in which he has been used and abused in the two hundred years since his death. The conference aims to be interdisciplinary and international in approach, and we invite individual papers and panel proposals from established academics, early-career researches, postgraduates, public historians, and museums and heritage professionals.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following issues:

 Paine in biography

 Paine’s political legacy on the Left and Right

 Paine in memory and commemoration

 Paine in public history, heritage and education

 Paine as world citizen

 Paine beyond America, Britain and France

 Paine, religion and ‘free-thought’

Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and the deadline for proposals is 14th June 2013. Please send a 200 word abstract of your paper, together with a one-page CV, to Sam Edwards at s.ed...@mmu.ac.uk or to Marcus Morris at marc...@mmu.ac.uk Successful papers/proposals will be informed by 1st July.

The conference will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University at the People’s History Museum in Manchester on Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th November 2013.

Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance

khurlock — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:25:14 +0000

On Thursday 28th February Prof. Ellen Garvey of New Jersey City University will be talking about her book, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance (OUP, 2012) http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/?view=usa&ci=9780199927692

The talk will start at 4pm in GM 238.

‘Permissiveness on Trial: The Rolling Stones and The Redlands Affair’

khurlock — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:06:11 +0000

Today, Marcus Collins of Loughborough University will a seminar paper to the department on ‘Permissiveness on Trial: The Rolling Stones and The Redlands Affair’. HIs paper will start at 4 pm in GM 303.

For more information on Dr Collins, please see his staff page at Loughborough http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/phir/staff/marcus-collins.html

Staff member elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

khurlock — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:58:37 +0000

Congratulations go to Dr Catherine Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, who has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

You can find out more about Dr Armstrong and her research interests by visiting her staff page http://www2.hlss.mmu.ac.uk/history-economic-history/academic-staff/?profileID=54

Call for Papers: Jews and modern visual culture

William Ashton — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:58:22 +0000

In the last decade or so, the Jewish relationship with modern visual culture has been the subject of renewed investigation, with a number of pioneering works reimagining and re-exploring the parameters of this relationship, in both its positive and negative aspects. Scholarly approaches are no longer limited to somewhat flat interpretations of “Jewish art”, for example. Instead, contemporary scholarship incorporates a multi-disciplinary approach that considers Jews and modern visual culture within a broader intellectual framework. In moving beyond the bounds aesthetic appreciation, contemporary scholarship incorporates approaches to material culture, political history, the role of memory and memorialisation, as well as exploring how the visual challenged and altered notions of Jewishness in the modern period.

In building on these developments, this conference will provide a forum for further exploration of the relationship between Jews and modern visual culture. Its remit is intended as broad enough to encompass all national contexts, with a flexible chronology.

Keynote speakers

- Michael Berkowitz, University College London, London.

- David Shneer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

- Carol Zemel, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Proposals are welcomed, but by no means limited to, the following areas of study:

- Jewish representation and self-representation in film

- Jews and photography

- Jews and (Jewish) art

- Caricature, cartoons and antisemitism

- Jews and other forms of representational art (sculpture, etc)

- Visual culture and politics

- Visual representation and the Holocaust

Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 31 March 2013

- Proposals of c.300 words for individual papers (20 minutes) should be forwarded to s.jo…@mmu.ac.uk, along with a short biography

- Proposals for themed panels are also welcome

- The final programme will be confirmed on 31 April 2013

- Delegates will be required to submit a written version of their papers by 14 August 2013, in order that responders/chairs will have an opportunity to compile comments

Supported by:

- The Institute of Humanities and Social Research, Manchester Metropolitan University: http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/

- The Manchester Jewish Museum: http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/

- Visit Manchester: http://www.visitmanchester.com/

Book History Research Network News

khurlock — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:55:50 +0000

Dr Catherine Armstrong is co-organising a study day on ‘Text and Image in the City’ as part of the Book History Research Network’s series of events. The study day will be held at the University of Leicester on May 31st.

Papers are invited for this interdisciplinary Study Day from postgraduates, independent researchers and established scholars working on medieval to modern Britain or Europe. Topics might include but are not limited to:

Intersections between urban cultural history and the history of books/prints/manuscripts/images
How the culture of text or image has contributed to – and/or been shaped by – its primarily urban setting
Urban texts and images: their creation, production, distribution and consumption/reception
Popular print culture and ‘street literature’ (ballads, chapbooks, broadsides etc.)
How texts and images disseminated urban ideas and culture into rural hinterlands
Reading the ‘word city’ through newspapers, maps, posters, timetables and ephemeral texts/images
Representations of urban space or modernity in text or image; urban ‘renaissance(s)’
Radical, innovative and subversive uses of urban texts and images

More information can be found here:

http://www.bookhistory.org.uk/book-history-research-network/events

Call for Papers: Jews and Modern Visual Culture, 8-10 September 2013

khurlock — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:55:49 +0000